WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Rep. Tom Cole, R-Oklahoma, issued the following statement: * * * Congressman Tom Cole (OK-04) released the following statement after the passing of Madeleine Albright, who was the first woman to serve as Secretary of the U.S. Department of State. "While I cannot say that I knew former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright well, I did have the chance to interact with her on several occasions during my time in Congress. "Secretary Albright and I did not always agree on   more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following opening remarks on March 24, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today delivered opening remarks at a hearing to receive testimony on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command. As Prepared for Delivery: Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling today's hearing, and thanks to our witnesses for their many decades of serv  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following opening remarks on March 24, 2022: U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), ranking member of the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC), today delivered opening remarks at a SASC hearing to receive testimony on the posture of United States Northern Command and United States Southern Command. Witnesses included: General Glen VanHerck, commander of U.S. Northern Command; and General Laura Richardson, Commander of U.S. Souther  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James M. Inhofe, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: U.S. Sens. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), James Lankford (R-Okla.), Mike Braun (R-Ind.), Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), John Kennedy (R-La.), Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Rick Scott (R-Fla.) introduced the Protecting Medicaid Beneficiaries Act. This bill helps ensure that Medicaid dollars are preserved for those in need and taxpayer dollars are wisely stewarded by requiring states to apply asset verification services (AV  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Mike Lee (R-UT) led a bicameral letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken advocating that the State Department assist Ukrainian refugees and aid American families who have already begun the process of adopting Ukrainian orphans. The letter asks the Department of State to aid the Ukrainian government to establish a consular office in Poland to process paperwork require  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Mike Lee (R-UT), Bill Cassidy (R-LA), Ted Cruz (R-TX), Rick Scott (R-FL), Cynthia Lummis (R-WY), and Ron Johnson (R-WI) sent a letter Attorney General Merrick Garland urging the Department of Justice (DOJ) to formally recognize and reprioritize the threat posed by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to the national security of the United States. The lette  more

WASHINGTON, March 25 -- Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma, issued the following news release: Senators James Lankford (R-OK) and Cindy Hyde-Smith (R-MS) introduced a resolution of disapproval to stop a Biden Administration regulation allowing combined payments for abortion coverage in taxpayer-funded Affordable Care Act (ACA) health exchange plans, which violates an unambiguous separate payment requirement in that law. The resolution challenges the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS)   more